Green Party Manifesto Key Points 2024
Mental Health:
o Increased funding for mental health care, equal to physical health care.
o Access to evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days.
o Trained and paid counsellor in every school and sixth-form college.
o Tailored mental health support for communities of color, children, adolescents, older people, and LGBTIQA+ communities.
o Adequate support for neurodivergent children and children with special educational needs.
NHS Dentistry:
o New NHS dentists’ contract to properly reward NHS dentists.
o Additional investment in NHS dentistry reaching £3bn a year by 2030.
o Funding for community hubs and primary care to provide free dental nursing for children and those on low incomes.
Disabilities:
o Restore the value of disability benefits with an immediate uplift of 5%.
o Reform intrusive eligibility tests like PIP (Personal Independence Payment).
o Mandatory free transport for 16-18 year old pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
Carers:
o Investment of £20bn to introduce free personal care, increase pay rates, and create a career structure for carers.
o £3bn to enable local authorities to provide high-quality children’s social care.
Public Transport:
o Increase annual public subsidies for rail and bus travel to £10bn by the end of the next Parliament, with free bus travel for under-18s.
o Invest an additional £19bn over five years to improve public transport, support electrification, and create new cycleways and footpaths.
o Bring the railways back into public ownership.
o Give local authorities control and funding for improved bus services.
Social Care:
o Introduce free personal care similar to the Scottish model.
o Increase pay and career structures for carers to address the care crisis and take pressure off the NHS.
Climate:
o £40bn annual investment in the shift to a green economy.
o Carbon tax to drive fossil fuels out of the economy.
o Public ownership of railways, water companies, and Big 5 retail energy companies.
o Ambitious targets for wind and solar energy to achieve a zero-carbon electricity supply by 2035.
o Cancel new fossil fuel licenses and phase out nuclear power.
Jobs:
o Green Economic Transformation with a £12.4bn investment in skills and training.
o Regional mutual banks to drive investment in decarbonization and local economic sustainability.
o Community ownership in local sustainable energy infrastructure.
Benefits:
o Increase Universal Credit and legacy benefits by £40 a week.
o Abolish the two-child benefit cap and end the ‘bedroom tax’.
o Long-term goal to introduce a universal basic income.
Cost of Living:
o Measures to lift everyone up, ensuring access to extra help when needed.
o Universal basic income for long-term security.
Healthcare:
o Commit to a fully public, properly funded NHS.
o Additional annual expenditure rising to £28bn by 2030 for the NHS in England.
o Boost NHS staff pay, including restoring junior doctors' pay.
o Reduce waiting lists, guarantee access to an NHS dentist, and ensure rapid GP access.